Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Cube

Well, the Power Mac G4 Cube (to give it its full name) arrived today.  Serendipitously, the KVM switch did as well.

Not particularly serendipitously, the connectors on the KVM will not fit ports on the Cube...

Figures.

I did connect the monitor and keyboard/mouse up, just to make sure the system works, and it does.  Beautifully.  Granted, a 450 Mhz G4 processor is not a speed demon, but it chugs along nicely.  And the 1.5 GB of RAM helps.

And it's a CUBE.  It's just freaking cool!  If Apple would bring this design back, updated, I might almost consider scraping together change to buy a new Mac.

Though I do have to say, those Kardon speakers are bleeding HUGE.  Why do all the pictures make them look so small?

Silly side note:  I remember reading somewhere that they used a bank of 16 Mac Cubes to control all the graphics and displays on the series Enterprise.  Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but...

I have a CUBE.

Now, if I could only find room for a G4 "Sunflower" iMac..........


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